Pics from the Star Wars Exhibit
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wendyzskiThat goofy picture I posted yesterday was when many of the people from the Galaxy Rangers (the dwindling revenants of the NU Scienfce Fiction Club) went to the Museum of Science and Industry for the "Star Wars - Where Science Meets Imagination" Exhibit.
The gist of the exhibit was to show original props and costumes from the movies and to link them to real-world science and technology. There was one of the original Landspeeders with a video about hovercrafts and an opportunity to drive one. (Sadly, my picture of the landspeeder did NOT come out - did any of you get a good one?). Props and costumes from Hoth, for example, were displayed along with clothing worn by scientists today in Antarctica, and a video with scenes of both and how they show how people and technology have to be adapted for cold climates. A full scale model of the Hoth probe droid was next to a vid on how the military is currently working on remote sensor equipment. Pretty cool. But on to the pictures!!!
John, Jake and myself trying to drive a hovercraft (which for the record was NOT full of eels)
blurry and flashed out shots of models
Fun fact about that last one - the Star Destroyer. How many of you remember when L'eggs pantyhose actually came in a plastic egg? Now look again closely at the rear engines....:)
Wampa
Luke on the Tauntaun model.
Misc costume shots
I always thought about making this outfit for a hall costume - it looks interesting but very comfy.
ObiWan & Anakin with Anakin detail
Mace Windu & Yoda
assorted wookies
Sandman detail
Vader from 2 angles. My shot of the 3-parts of the helmet didn't come out - too much flash.
lightsabres
blasters
Interrogation droid from Ep 4. Most of us agreed that this thing scared the shit out of us when we saw the film!
There were a wide variety of nifty and strange things in the gift shop - I got a set of 5 mini spaceship holiday ornaments and a lapel pin. I skipped the "Light-Up Musical Darth Vader Giant Pez Dispenser", as well as the Darth Vader in a santa hat snowglobe (though the "list" he was checking had the names of Star Wars characters on it with the "good guys" crossed out. :)). There were also mini ornaments with characters or heads floating in them. Yoda looked pretty comfy on his little scooter-thingie, but the Chewbacca one really looked like someone had lopped his head off and stuck it in a bottle. Ick.
There were Star Wars references in many other places in the museum. Check out the rather odd babysitter in the Chick Hatchery:
We also did a lot of the otehr exhibits. Here is a list of safety signs from the Toymaker 3000 exhibit, some of which are pretty funny
And here are john and jake presenting a rather interesting weather forecast....
The museum also has a whole area of holiday trees with ornaments from or representing various countries. The British one had ornaments shaped like biscuits and teacups, and some recipes. This one looked yummy.
It was a lot of fun but by feet definitely hurt by the time we were done!
The gist of the exhibit was to show original props and costumes from the movies and to link them to real-world science and technology. There was one of the original Landspeeders with a video about hovercrafts and an opportunity to drive one. (Sadly, my picture of the landspeeder did NOT come out - did any of you get a good one?). Props and costumes from Hoth, for example, were displayed along with clothing worn by scientists today in Antarctica, and a video with scenes of both and how they show how people and technology have to be adapted for cold climates. A full scale model of the Hoth probe droid was next to a vid on how the military is currently working on remote sensor equipment. Pretty cool. But on to the pictures!!!
John, Jake and myself trying to drive a hovercraft (which for the record was NOT full of eels)
blurry and flashed out shots of models
Fun fact about that last one - the Star Destroyer. How many of you remember when L'eggs pantyhose actually came in a plastic egg? Now look again closely at the rear engines....:)
Wampa Luke on the Tauntaun model.Misc costume shots
I always thought about making this outfit for a hall costume - it looks interesting but very comfy.
ObiWan & Anakin with Anakin detail
Mace Windu & Yoda
assorted wookies
Sandman detail
Vader from 2 angles. My shot of the 3-parts of the helmet didn't come out - too much flash.
lightsabres
blasters
Interrogation droid from Ep 4. Most of us agreed that this thing scared the shit out of us when we saw the film!
There were a wide variety of nifty and strange things in the gift shop - I got a set of 5 mini spaceship holiday ornaments and a lapel pin. I skipped the "Light-Up Musical Darth Vader Giant Pez Dispenser", as well as the Darth Vader in a santa hat snowglobe (though the "list" he was checking had the names of Star Wars characters on it with the "good guys" crossed out. :)). There were also mini ornaments with characters or heads floating in them. Yoda looked pretty comfy on his little scooter-thingie, but the Chewbacca one really looked like someone had lopped his head off and stuck it in a bottle. Ick.
There were Star Wars references in many other places in the museum. Check out the rather odd babysitter in the Chick Hatchery:
We also did a lot of the otehr exhibits. Here is a list of safety signs from the Toymaker 3000 exhibit, some of which are pretty funny
And here are john and jake presenting a rather interesting weather forecast....
The museum also has a whole area of holiday trees with ornaments from or representing various countries. The British one had ornaments shaped like biscuits and teacups, and some recipes. This one looked yummy.
It was a lot of fun but by feet definitely hurt by the time we were done!
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Date: 2007-12-10 10:19 pm (UTC)and i lol'd at the "assorted wookies" tag.
that looks like it was a lot of fun!!!
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Date: 2007-12-10 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-10 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-10 10:49 pm (UTC)Hey are some of those displays from the S&I in DC? I went to that exhibit many years ago
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Date: 2007-12-11 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-10 11:11 pm (UTC)When we went to Houston over Thanksgiving, son-&-heir and DIL-to-be took us to the Johnson Space Center, where there is a permanent display of various pieces of the space program (think mini-version of the Smithsonian NASM). The special displays included a full-size replica of an X-wing fighter, brought in to celebrate the featured exhibit - the only Star Wars artifact to have actually been in space (Luke Skywalker's lightsaber from The Return of the Jedi, which went up as part of the October launch of Discovery).
They also had a Dark Lord outfit and one or two other items from the movies on display. One of the things noted on the information cards was the fact that many of the current crop of new astronauts point to Star Wars as an influencing factor in their respective decisions to pursue aerospace as a career choice.
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Date: 2007-12-11 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-10 11:42 pm (UTC)You shore do know how to have a good time!! *hee*
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Date: 2007-12-11 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-11 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-11 01:46 am (UTC)And I love the "chick-nanny"!
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Date: 2007-12-12 03:43 am (UTC)And yes, I took lots of photos of the land speeder. Including a shot from almost floor level...showing the *real* "hover" system. ;-)
My fave "hey, look at this": the spark plugs on C3PO. Hopefully those shots came out.